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Specimens: The Spirit of Zoology

Specimens

The Museum's collection of wet specimens from the Darwin Centre, captured here in an array of startling photographs.

ISBN: 0565091786

Author: Roger Lincoln and Phil Rainbow

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Specimens: The Spirit of Zoology

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A lively and informative history of specimen collection, this book is both a photographic and scientific encounter. It is illustrated with startling and awe-inspiring images of some of the 22 million 'wet' specimens from the Museum's new Darwin Centre.

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Hardback, 140 x 150 mm
64 pp, 2003
Illustrated in colour throughout
0 565 09178 6. Published by the Natural History Museum.

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